Lee Hazlewood -- Search and Destroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2k4Z12VHZk

Light in the Attic is about to put out some very rare Hazlewood stuff:

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/739-a-house-safe-for-tigers

A House Safe For Tigers is the soundtrack to one of the seven TV movies Lee Hazlewood made with the director Torbjörn Axelman during his period living in Sweden in the early 1970s. Hazlewood had moved there to lay low and to help his son avoid the draft, but wound up finding happiness and creative freedom. Many of the albums recorded in Sweden made their way no further than Scandinavia, but of them all, A House Safe For Tigers is the holy grail for collectors, often changing hands for hundreds of dollars.

saw a couple of killer-looking comps that appear sorta similar, design-wise, to the above, recently - two vinyl reissues compiling bunches of lee's stuff seemingly by mood; there was a syrupy one with wait and see on & another with no train to stockholm, the nights, &c, iirc. they were stickered with fan-club-only or something, i don't really know much about them. they had ridiculous sleeves, one with a photoshopped remake of the trouble sleeve but with a cut-out futuristic & moustachioed head of lee taking the place of a train on the tracks in the distance. mainly stuff from the records but they looked pretty good.

Oh man, that Tigers reissue is great news!

Yea this is awesome.

So prolific, insane how often I thought I had exhausted the catalog and then more comes up

Light In The Attic seem to imply that some remastered, better quality reissues are coming. Any confirmation on that?

Just this:

For the past 7 years we’ve been begging, pleading, and praying to re-release some of Lee’s greatest solo recordings and production work, including material from LHI, Lee’s own label from ‘66 to ’71. We are ecstatic to announce that we will launch a detailed Lee Hazlewood Series this spring all gloriously re-mastered from the original analog master tapes. The series will include scores of unreleased sides and unseen photos. As I write this, we’re digging through hundreds of tapes that have been untouched for over forty years, meticulously transferring the reels, and drooling in anticipation for the months ahead.

...but no specifics yet...

Please, please let them do the Honey Ltd. album.

House Safe For Tigers is NUTS. Got the LHI comp too - wish these came with MP3s

One of his best, for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99wO8fluXg

I just splurged on this Light in the Attic 7" box set in a fit of ridiculous financial irresponsibility and I have no regrets at all. It's so, so, so good. I didn't know so many of these songs, and there's not a dud on this thing.

http://blog.lightintheattic.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/honeyltd_invite-675x928.jpg

Press release says 4 young women but there are 5 on the cover?

I was gonna post about this like an hour ago

this reissue has been suuuuuper overdue

Had no idea the sisters were still going: http://likehoneymusic.com

What kind of crummy photographer gets a flower right in the face of one of the subjects?

A botanical photographer. Actually I think that's just a superimposition of the middle girl.

this reissue has been suuuuuper overdue

Hell yes. Such a great record, too.

Great article by DL in the Guardian today, and that
box set looks very exciting.

I hate trying to put links in.

Okay so I'm a bit bummed that in order to get the complete LHI catalog as mp3s you basically have to spend $180. I have most of the Lee and I guess the Honey Ltd. Is there really enough out there to make this even remotely worthwhile?

I'm totally strung out on Honey Ltd.'s Complete Recordings, and their reincarnation as Eve---minus one member, I think, but the two Eve tracks in the label boxset play in my head alll the time. The box also has well-chosen Complete Recording tracks.
A fair amount, maybe most of Hazlewood's own music included in the box can be found elsewhere, but would cost more, in some cases a lot more, if bought sep. Great to hear him (solo and with duet partners, mercurial Ann-Margret and pioneering youg *female* rock producer/on-point singer-songwriter Suzi Jane Hokum) in same place as misc. LHI singles, sporting psych-punk, folk-rock (incl. Ann-Margret and Suzi Jane's solo efforts, respectively---A-M's a badass!). Also excellent Deetroit-meets-Stax from Babara Randolph and the brilliantly re-named Billie Dearborn.
Lots of deep cuts and one-shots, but why weren't Buffalo Spingfield etc. show openers Hamilton Streetcar better known outside of late 60s Hollywood? Being on this fractious label didn't help any of these artists, except Hazlewood, I guess.
Can't say if it would be worth $180 to you, since I got it and Honey Ltd. as promos. Maybe they'll be on Spotify, does Light In The Attic do that? Spotify already has a number of Hazlewood albums, maybe a bit of these other artists' stuff too, on prev. comps. Found a bunch of other boxes, like VU, Dylan ( they still just have the 15-track Another Self Portrait sampler on there, though).

Members of the Wrecking Crew and other A-list session cats keep the quality consistent, too.

Emusic has the MP3 version of the LHI box for cheap (the contents of the discs though, not the complete LHI thumb drive thingy).

Oh yeah, I don't have any of the bonus deals, just the mp3s and .pdfs of the Honey Ltd. booklet and box book, both excellent. CDs would be better; I get tired of backing up my back-ups etc.

I think I need to check what the 305 tracks are. It's a lot of money but I could see it being worth it I guess. Just seems like a crazy amount of money for basically a DVD stuffed with WAV/mp3s that I have elsewhere. I could care less about the rest of the stuff that is doubling the price.

The 107 track version is on Spotify, and it's incredible enough on its own, without further context.

Yes, listening to that right now after don's recommendation and first listening to the Honey Ltd, which is also on spotify.

Can't say if it would be worth $180 to you, since I got it and Honey Ltd. as promos. Maybe they'll be on Spotify, does Light In The Attic do that? Spotify already has a number of Hazlewood albums, maybe a bit of these other artists' stuff too, on prev. comps. Found a bunch of other boxes, like VU, Dylan ( they still just have the 15-track Another Self Portrait sampler on there, though).

― dow, Sunday, 8 December 2013 16:12 (2 hours ago) Permalink

sorta hidden in the compilations category but spotify pulls through big

http://open.spotify.com/album/30Nzeoqzc9baLBz3ZPyPaf

Hamilton Streetcar's Invisible People and The Aggregation's Flying High are both psychsploitation gold.

Just found it under Lee Hazlewood, didn't seem to be hiding anymore, at least from the Spotify search function. So far seems to be a whole pocket universe of undiscovered countrified psych-pop in which Serge Gainsbourg meets Kris Kristofferson.

Although no doubt certain crate diggers done dug it before me

Should have put the prefix "Euro" in there somewhere

Sometimes it's difficult to remember the good times but I know there were some.

streaming the box now, man it sounds good. hope that it is under the xmas tree this year!

Yup. I like how "Dark End of the Street" threatens to turn into "River Deep, Mountain High."

I think I need to check what the 305 tracks are. Me too! But yeah, the Spotify version is what I have, and enough for now (maybe...) Best way to find it: put the main part of the title, There's A Dream I've Been Saving.

"Dark End": yeah, was thinking he and A-M were getting all turned on by the danger, and then he bleats, "Aw, let 'em find us"---the jaded cowpoke, mebbe fixing to mosey on, or just country-fatalistic about the available thrills and spills (reminds me of Lou Reed at times).

The CD version also includes the first legit DVD of his movie, Cowboy In Sweden; haven't seen that. LITA site doesn't seem to specify what the other tracks (incl 17 LPs and many 45s) are, on the deluxe ed.'s data discs. Oh well. They do provide a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQ1tdmn-Jo

How is the book? I already have most of the previous reissues, but the book is the one thing that could get me to plunge into the LITA box.

I can't pay $89 for a book no matter how awesome it looks. It's a sign of my mental illness that I'm like maybe I should pay double that for a DVD stuffed with songs basically plus a book lol. :-\

The book is beautiful and elegantly written but maybe not worth $89. THe boxset is the biggest one I own - it's a beast.

Afraid to see the video of Cowboy in Sweden, because I've already made such a video for it in my head. It's solidly in the the form of a corny variety show sketches, a la Sonny & Cher and Donnie & Marie, providing maximum contrast with the high craft of the songs.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/29/lee-hazlewood-rocks-great-recluse-wyndham-wallace-meltdown?CMP=share_btn_tw

Thanks! Wonder if this show was recorded...?

Dying to know what some of those "Movie Facts" were.

And now Wyndham Wallace's book, rec by author of recent Robert Wyatt bio:

Marcus O'Dair
‏@marcusodair

.@WyndhamWallace is on @BBCGidCoeShow next week, talking about his brilliant Lee Hazlewood book, Lee, Myself and I. Recommended.

Rock's Backpages has a free Lee section at the moment (dunno for how long)

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/public/img/home/129-free.jpg

A COWBOY IN NEW YORK — Wyndham Wallace recalls his first encounter with the legendary Lee Hazlewood in 1999 and NME's Tony Stewart talks Nancy Sinatra and more with Lee in 1971. PLUS exclusive audio of "the ol' sonofabitch" talking about his early years in Oklahoma…
That last is an epic mp3 talk with/to/at Barney Hoskyns. You gotta go here and scroll down through this vast trove of freebies, also register, but it worked pretty well for me:
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Free